frustrated - Story 51406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the overflowing trash cans, a chaotic symphony of discarded memories. He slammed the lid down with unnecessary force. The yard was overgrown, a tangle of weeds and neglected shrubs. Every time he stepped into the garden he felt suffocated. His sister, Lily, had gone to visit friends, leaving him to the arduous process of cleaning up. It was all too much. He knew this would consume his summer.

Emotion: frustrated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frustrated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frustrated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frustrated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frustrated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.344
`P`	0.302
`exasper`	0.257
`aggravated`	0.254
`que`	0.252

Suppressed:

`unfolding`	-0.242
`otre`	-0.226
`latter`	-0.220
`☺️`	-0.216
`soon`	-0.212